Publisher's Synopsis
This book features full colour reproductions of Rachel Howard's works from 2013 - 2017, installation images from museum shows and reference images from the artist's archive.It has been published on the occasion of the artist's exhibition of new paintings and a new body of sculpture, Der Kuss at Blain|Southern, London (24 January - 17 March 2018).The works in Der Kuss ask us to consider how memory can fix on banal imagery as a reference point for dramatic or traumatic occurrences such as war.Includes a poem by Kate Dent and texts by psycho analyst Darian Leader, and Blain|Southern's Head of Exhibitions, Craig Burnett.
